“Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray/All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful”
“Mr. Jones,” Counting Crows
of late i have been wearing
too many shirts along the spectrum of blue
blue is a heavy color to wear
not like black which is the color of no light
the opposite of the sun
which is the color of all light
blue&black sit against the skin
like the aftermath of tripping and falling
being tossed around below deck
with an ocean raging all around you
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out of the blue i keep losing my balance
distracted by anything colored the absence of you
it is never about the certainty of the falling
but the aftermath of the landing in blue&black
10 days after the falling and the landing
the bruising jaundiced and bone sore to the touch
i have begun choosing only shirts in gray
and walking steadily as if you are holding my hand
—P.L. Thomas
